Merry Christmas from the Garden Girls!!
We just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Here is hoping 2009 is an even better “scrappy” year for you!!
.:Welcome to the Scrap Garden:.
We're so happy you found us. We're a fun loving community of scrappers from all various stages. We've got scrappers who've been doing this for years and we've got brand new scrappers too. We have scrappers on Design Teams and some who have been published in magazines. We've got paper scrappers and digi scrappers and some who dabble in both.
So come on in and check us out. Our forums are lots of fun and our gallery is great for getting inspiration. Each month we host a contest and we continuously post challenges to keep your creative juices flowing.
November Challenges
Happy November from the Garden Girls!!! We’re going to change things up a bit and not host contests for a little while. Instead we’re going to focus on the challenges we host each month and add a few extras for a while. Please stop by our Challenges forum to see all the great challenges we’ve come up with.
Here is just a taste of a few that Jules has for us:
Scraplift Challenge
Word Challenge
Font Challenge
Come check it out!
October Contest — Fall Family Traditions
This month’s contest is being hosted by our very own Patty. Here are the details — I look forward to seeing some gorgeous fall pages.
FALL FAMILY TRADITIONS…Fall is my fave time of the year..I want to see a lo based on what your family does during the fall….I only have 2 must sees…Journaling and more than 1 pic the rest is up to you…looking forward to what u come up with… Will post the pic for the prize when the kiddos go to bed…
The Digi Prize is a $10 gift certificate from Miss Mint herself 
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Paper Prize
Come check us out on the boards.
August’s Contest: I Love Textiles!!
This month’s contest is hosted by Julie, click here for the details in the forum.
Ok all you ribbon hoarders - it’s time to get scrapping!
I want to see lots and lots of layouts this month. Your goal is to include ribbon, fiber, fabric, lace, thread. etc. on your work.For every lo, card, or project done this month you will earn one point. If you use ribbon (and the like), that layout is worth 3 points.
At the end of the month, every 5 points you’ve earned will get you into a drawing for one of these awesome prizes:
Paper Prize:
Amy Butler kit by K & Company along with a surprise ribbon assortment from my stash!
Digi Prize:
We hope you’ll come play along with us this month!
July’s Contest: It’s All About the Scraplifts, Baby!!
Rachel is hosting this month’s contest and we are super excited, see the details below or in this thread.
This month’s contest is all about scraplifting!! You can scraplift someone from the Garden, scraplift someone “famous”, scraplift something from a magazine, heck you can even scraplift yourself!
I finally made the decision to get back into scrapping after over a 6 month drought. I think the thing that kept me from getting started again was trying to come up with a unique design each time. Then one day I was looking back at some of my old scrapbooks and realized that I didn’t care how the LO looked, I just liked reading the stories I wrote. So I decided then that I would just forget about creating the perfect LO and scraplift some of my favs to get my memories recorded!
So head on over to the gallery or pick up a magazine and lift away to your hearts content.
For every LO that you lift, you will get one entry into a drawing for the wonderful prize below. And if you lift someone from the gallery, you’ll get 2 entries for each LO completed!
Here’s the paper prize: (You’ll also get an acrylic block to attach the stamps to)
Here is the digi prize: A $10 gift certificate to Kaye Winiecki’s designs
Image is clickable to see her store, she also sells at the Digi Chick.
And here are some examples of LOs I’ve lifted recently. These lifts that I did give you just a few examples of the different ways you can lift someone.
I lifted this LO of Melissa’s pretty much exactly how she did it.
Melissa’s:
Mine:
When I lifted this one of Christy’s, I took a few aspects of it, but changed it up a bit.
Christy’s:
Mine:
And on this one of Jules’ I kind of took the concept of her LO, but my end result, doesn’t really resemble her original LO.
Jules’:
Mine:
Scrappy Birthday to us!!!
We’re celebrating our second anniversary this month!!!
So to celebrate this month — we’re using our challenges as part of our monthly contest. You can check out the details here.
The prizes this month are fantastic!!!
The paper prize comes from a mixture of papers from our prize stash.
Our digi prize is a $10 gift card from the fabulous Flergs:
Image is clickable 
We hope you will join us this month and help us celebrate!!
May’s Contest — it’s in the cards
This month’s contest is being hosted by our very own Jill (jillybean). Instead of the usual LO contest, she is hosting a card contest. Below are the details.
Seems like we never have enough cards made for when you need them, so all you have to do is make cards for a chance to win a clear stamp set.
Make as many cards as you like, each one will give you an entry to win. There are three different stamps sets, you just have to post your card and say which one the entry is for.
Hero Arts November stamp set….make a card about anything that has to do with November…examples the word november, fall leaves, turkeys, thanksgiving, thanks etc.
Perfectly Clear Happy Messages set…make a card with any message examples…Happy Birthday, friends, Hi, Hello, Thank you or missing you etc.
Perfectly Clear doodle wings…make a card with any type of winged creature…examples..Butterfly, Dragonfly, birds, ladybugs etc.
So if you made a birthday card with butterflies on it, you could either enter it for the Happy Messages set or the doodle wings set..your choice so hope to see some cards get done that you can use through out the year.
National Scrapbook Day
To celebrate National Scrapbook Day, the admin girls and I came up ten fun challenges to get us motivated to scrap today!!! For every challenge completed, Jules will put your name in a hat for a goodie RAK from our prize stash. See the challenges here. We hope you’ll join us today!!
April’s Challenges
Each month we offer many challenges to keep our pages fresh and inspiring. Below are this month’s challenges:
Sketch Challenge
Ad Challenge
Card Challenge
Font Challenge
We can’t wait to see what you come up with this month.
April’s Contest: It’s a BEAUTY
Katie is hosting this month’s contest — It’s a BEAUTY
April- the beginnings of spring, flowers blooming, snow melting (for those of you who are nuts enough to live in it, lol), things turning green….
April’s contest is to focus on beauty. It can be landscape beauty or portrait beauty, your choice. The catch is that your journaling or title must in someway note that you are focusing on the beauty of the subject!
You will get one entry per LO. I will pull a winner from all the entries on May 1!
Paper Prize is…
this fab kit packed full of goodies from Daisy D’s from Little Red Scrapbook !
Digi Prize is…
Our digi prize this month is being donated by:
Stop by the boards and say hi!
March’s Contest: Current Events
This month’s contest is being done by own very own Amy!!! Below are the details.
Hey girls, It’s time for the March contest.
I will post a picture of the prize later this week.
It’s Cosmo Cricket Time!!! Paper, chipboard alphas, sticker sheet, and a shapes chipboard pack.
This is a drawing contest. Anyone who does a layout will be entered. Nicky will pick the winner out of a hat at 12am on March 31.The Challenge this month is to do a layout about a current event. It could be about the election, global warming, something that happened recently in your town, etc. Try to think of doing the layout based on something BIGGER than you or your family. Got it? Now go have fun!
Come join us on the forums, we’d love to have you.
Leaping for a Crop!!
Join us this coming weekend for a “Leaping” good time!!! Jules has decided that we need to have a crop to celebrate Leap Day!!! Hey, any excuse to have a crop and we jump on it. 
So starting this Friday, Jules is going to be posting some challenges in our Crop Forum to get us into the scrapping spirit!!! We hope to see you there.
~Hearts a Plenty~
February’s Contest Hearts a Plenty is hosted by Christy!! You can find out all the details here.
Our prizes this month are:
Paper Prize is Cosmo Cricket’s Halfway Cafe kit
Digi Prize is a $10 gift certificate to Scrapbook Graphics
Can’t wait to see what your girls come up with!!
Hello Girls!!
Christy here!! Just thought I’d change things up a bit, I am going to switch our homepage to a blog — hope you like it!!
